Student Projects Laboratory

The Department of Electrical Engineering invites you to use the EE Student Projects Laboratory at 1212 S.W. Mudd Building. The laboratory was opened in 2004 (see this Spectator article) as an "open doors" laboratory. This essentially means that you can walk in and work on whatever project you would like, as long as the laboratory doors are open.

The laboratory is equipped with electronic test and measurement equipment, discrete components, breadboards and soldering stations. If you have any projects in mind, you can build and test it over here. There will be project ideas made available to you through the lab TA from time to time. If you are new to electronics and are keen on learning more, this is a quick way to pick up skills! If you are even peripherally interested, just come in, talk to us, and tinker with the tools and equipment.

Students working an wirelss heart monitor for the spring 2004 Senior Design Class

Starting a Project

There are three ways to start do a project in the SPL. Click on the links to be taken to a more thorough discussion of each of the options:

Do you own project .
Take a class that uses the SPL.
Do a research project with a professor.

In the Lab: Senior Electrical Design Lab (EE3390)

E3390 Electrical Design Lab (Fall/Spring): A capstone design course where you get to design and build a device of your own choosing. This class takes place in the SPL and is one of the best ways to take advantage of the lab

Lab Hours:

TA hours: Mon-Fri: 2-5pm; (Fall 2007)
If you would like to work in the lab at any other hours, you are welcome. Please contact the TA.
For access during the summer, please contact John Kazana.

Contact Information

Lab Teaching Assistant:
Kshitij Yadav: ky2181 AT columbia.edu (Fall 2007)
Undergraduate Labs Manager:
John Kazana: kazana AT ee.columbia.edu
Faculty Advisor:
David Vallancourt: dv82 AT ee.columbia.edu
Lab Founders:
Peter Kinget: kinget AT ee.columbia.edu
Yannis Tsividis: tsividis AT ee.columbia.edu

        Binary Clock

Safety in the Laboratory

To ensure a safe laboratory a list of rules and fundamental safety principles has been developed and provided for you here.These rules must be followed at all times. This, in the form of a contract, is available here. Please print this out, sign it, and keep a copy for yourself. The signed copy should be handed over to John Kazana.

References

This page has tips on good lab practices, breadboarding, debugging, runningexperiments, ground connections, glossary for elcctrical terms, circuit theory etc.